Tim, the byline for the SMH article http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/01/1086037760365.html is Jack Robertson, not Margo Kingston. (Is this a nefarious pseudonym? Is it her eviller sound-alike twin?) HAVE THEY REPLACED HER? (pant pant pant)

Margo "Now we're supposed to believe that the government knew nothing about American war crimes in Iraq jails until April, when the pictures surfaced. "

Um, if the Government DID know, and cared, then what? Alexander rings up Rumsfeld and says "Marines naughty, smack smack"? All this outrage but no clue about what could have/should have been done if we knew that a couple of dozen foreign soldiers did some stuff far away from any Aussies. Its OUR government's responsibility?
Why no outrage that the Government knew and didnt act on Saddam's mistreatment of political prisoners?

You think Margo et al could lay off Halliburton for a little while. The far left have demonised the company day in, day out for years, and now Islamists have caught on and have mentioned it in their talks about the terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia.